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Wrongful Conviction

#170 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony

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0:00.0

It's a warm summer evening in Virginia where a 911 operator answers a call.

0:07.0

There's a woman on the other end of the line.

0:09.5

She says she's been attacked.

0:15.0

Police arrive at the victim's home and they take a statement.

0:19.0

The victim, a white woman, says that as she was walking to her apartment,

0:24.0

she came across a man laying on the ground.

0:27.5

He was clutching his leg.

0:29.5

She thought he must have fallen off the bike that was toppled over next to him.

0:33.0

So she bent down to help him.

0:35.5

And that's when he grabbed her, beat her and raped her.

0:40.5

The victim told the police everything she could remember about her attacker.

0:45.0

She said the man was black with a light complexion.

0:48.5

He had a mustache, a beard, and some scratches on his face.

0:54.0

Before the attacker left the scene of the crime, he told the victim some vague details about his life.

1:00.5

He told her that he had, quote, had other white women.

1:04.5

The police escort the victim to the hospital where a rape kid is taken and sent off to a crime lab.

1:15.5

I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of I Heart Media.

1:18.5

This season, a map in magic will hear from Gwyneth Paltrow, Academy Award-winning actress and founder

1:23.5

and CEO of Goop.

1:25.0

I learned very quickly to make a distinction between the projections of people who do not know me

1:32.5

and the people who love me and want the best for me, even if they have to say something that might be hard to hear.

1:39.0

Listen to the new season of map in magic stories from the frontiers and marketing on our very own I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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